REFLECTOR: Door hinges

Andrew Ellzey ajlz72756 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 3 13:49:28 CST 2006


That's what I wanted to do with mine also, but wanted to make sure that the door would still open correctly before I spent all the time to make them flush. What about water intrusion through the hinges?

Andy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hiroo Umeno 
  To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
  Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:00 AM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door hinges


  On my aircraft, the top of the hinge is flush with the fuselage skin.  Looking tangentially to the curvature of the fuselage, you will not see the hinge tops at all.

   

  Hiroo

   


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  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ellzey
  Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:10 AM
  To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
  Subject: REFLECTOR: Door hinges

   

  Need some feed back on how flush your door hinges are to the top of the fuselage. The manual doesn't say how much or how little of the hinges should be sticking up in the slip stream. If I follow the manual and attach my hinges to the door first and don't add or remove any material to the thickness of the door structure at the hinge, I would have about 1/8 inch of the hinge above the door and top of the fuselage. Is this normal? The manual makes one statement like you should have from the center of the hinge pin above the door. Does everyone else have 1/2 of the hinge above the fuselage, or am I reading this wrong? I also would like to know how you are supposed to keep water from coming through the hinge when it rains. I intend to construct a pocket under my hinges to channel any water out to the door seal area to flow any water out around the door seal. Is this what anyone else has done.

   

  Andy Ellzey



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